My World of Prog

It had me captured when I was a child listening to the Dave Clark Five, who I believed at the time had a much more promising future as a band than the upstart competitor, the Beatles. Oh well. Hindsight is usually 20/20.

In University, it was all Floyd, Santana, Hendrix. and many other pioneers we didn't see as genre starters.

In my early work life, even the FM stations were playing my musical love. Bands like Genesis, Arthur Brown, ELO, ELP, Jethro Tull, and so on. They were glory days.

Then it was wrongly reported that Prog was past tense. Gone and remembered only in the context of time past. But not so. They may have disappeared from front and centre, but they were alive and well in the smoky bar scenes of Poland, England, and even the U.S.A. although in smaller numbers. RUSH became # three on the list of all time album sales, and they're Canadian! (As am I by the way) Today, Prog music can be found by the discerning searcher, in practically every country in the world.

My goal here is to reveal these unknown bands and unknown sounds of the Prog world through simple posts that will hopefully give you the idea and motivation to search out more.

I sincrely hope you can learn to appreciate the subtleties and excellent musicianship of the Prog genre. It has so much to offer, and its malignment is undeserved.

Welcome.